Sam D. Gill

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Sam Gill is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Native American religions were the focus of his work for twenty-five years. He regularly hung out in cultures in the American Southwest—Navajo, Hopi, Yaqui, and Zuni—to observe ritual and dancing. Since the early 1990s Sam has been an enthusiastic student of dancing in cultures around the world including travel to observe and study dancing to Bali and Java, Thailand and Nepal, Ghana and Mali, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Sam has taught courses on many topics related to dancing notably a yearlong course “Religion and Dance” that covered over thirty dance traditions and included weekly dance studios taught by artists from the relevant cultures. In the ...more

Average rating: 3.69 · 124 ratings · 13 reviews · 23 distinct works
Native American Religions: ...

3.67 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions
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Dictionary of Native Americ...

4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions
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Native American Myths  Tales

3.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Mother Earth: An American S...

2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
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Beyond the Primitive: The R...

3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings2 editions
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Sacred Words: A Study of Na...

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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1981
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Storytracking: Texts, Stori...

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions
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Dancing Culture Religion

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Native American Religious A...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1987 — 2 editions
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Native American Traditions:...

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1983 — 2 editions
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